Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns

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Pamphlet

25 cm x 15.5 cm

Boston : Fetridge and Company, 1854Image depicts title page only.

The "Boston Slave Riot" was an unsuccesful attempt by African American abolitionists, led by Lewis Hayden, to rescue captured fugitive slave Anthony Burns from the courthouse. During the riot that followed, a deputy marshal, James Batchelder (here "Bachelder"), was killed.